From: Greg Burch (gregburch@gregburch.net)
Date: Sat Aug 04 2001 - 18:02:57 MDT
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From: "J. R. Molloy" <jr@shasta.com>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 3:01 PM
Subject: Re: Fred Reed - The Dave Barry of Racists
> From: "Greg Burch" <gregburch@gregburch.net>
> > Think it might have something to do with testosterone?
>
> Notice that if such a statement were made about a race rather than a
gender,
> it would be called racist. Since it is a derogatory comment about one
gender,
> that makes it a sexist comment, which is as reprehensible as a racist
comment.
Actually, I don't think it's sexist to identify empirically verifiable
differences between the sexes, especially where a clear-cut and testable
causal agent can be identified. In the case of testosterone, the facts are
pretty damned clear:
http://www.pslgroup.com/dg/3a046.htm
http://www.crime-times.org/95c/w95cp4.htm
http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/Archive/bbs.mazur.html
http://www.gsu.edu/~psyjmd/NSF96-99.html
Those just from the first page of a google search on "testosterone and
violence". There are plenty of other factors that bear on violence; after
all, high-T males aren't all violent criminals. Some are athletes and trial
lawyers.
Greg Burch
Vice-President, Extropy Institute
http://www.gregburch.net
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